A Document Management System (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents. It is usually also capable of keeping track of the different versions modified by different users (history tracking). The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management system.
4. Storage :
Store electronic documents.
Storage of the documents often includes management of those same
documents; where they are stored,for how long, migration of the
documents from one storage media to another (hierarchical
storage management) and eventual document destruction.
6. Metadata :
Metadata is typically stored for each document.
Metadata may, for example, include the date
the document was stored and the identity of
the user storing it.
The DMS may also extract metadata from the
document automatically or prompt the user to add
metadata. Some systems also use optical character
recognition on scanned images, or perform text
extraction on electronic documents